Large scale genetic research on neuropsychiatric disorders in african populations is needed

Authors

Shareefa Dalvie, University of Cape Town
Nastassja Koen, University of Cape Town
Laramie Duncan, Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
Catherine Abbo, Makerere University
Dickens Akena, Makerere University
Lukoye Atwoli, Aga Khan UniversityFollow
Bonginkosi Chiliza, Stellenbosch University
Kirsten A. Donald, University of Cape Town
Eugene Kinyanda, Makerere University
Christine Lochner, Medical Research Council (MRC) Unit on Anxiety and Stress Disorders, Cape Town, South Africa

Document Type

Article

Department

Internal Medicine (East Africa)

Abstract

In recent years there have been significant insights into the complex aetiologies of neurodevelopmental brain disorders. For example, neuropsychiatric genetics has achieved success with the identification of 108 loci for schizophrenia (Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, 2014). Furthermore, meta-analyses of genomewide association study (GWAS) results encompassing thousands of samples have been completed for other psychiatric disorders including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism

Comments

This work was published before the author joined Aga Khan University

Publication (Name of Journal)

EBioMedicine

Recommended Citation

Dalvie, S., Koen, N., Duncan, L., Abbo, C., Akena, D., Atwoli, L., Chiliza, B., Donald, K. A., Kinyanda, E., Lochner, C. (2015). Large scale genetic research on neuropsychiatric disorders in african populations is needed. EBioMedicine, 2(10), 1259-1261.
Available at: https://ecommons.aku.edu/eastafrica_fhs_mc_intern_med/188